I met my first transhumanist around 1986, and assure you that Steven Poole is absolutely right: The apparent paradox, then, is that so many transhumanists, … [Read more...]
Steve Sailer: “Since the downfall of the Gestapo, nobody has treasured the verb ‘interrogate’ as much as postmodern academics”
Steve Sailer writes: The Hitlerian vocabulary of Studies professors suggests that although we hear so much about the dangers of the “alt-right,” we ought to learn more about the “ctrl-left.” The counterpart … [Read more...]
Penelope Trunk: “Silicon Valley is a perfect storm for middle-class domestic abuse”
Meet your OTHER moral and intellectual superiors, ev'buddy! Silicon Valley is full of shit. The feminist narrative of Silicon Valley makes me want to stab my eyes out. … [Read more...]
“The Battle(s) Of Berkeley–Someone Is Going To Get Killed. Where Is Trump?”
James Kirkpatrick writes: Regardless of what happens in Alabama, it is also all but certain there will be another … [Read more...]
“Norman Podhoretz’s War on the Haters and the Losers”
Written by Jeet Heer tho: While Podhoretz would’ve called himself a liberal in 1967, all the traits that led to his shift to the right in the early 1970s were already present in Making It. In … [Read more...]
Dark Corners: “She Shoulda Said No” (1949) and “The Devil’s Weed” (1936)
Although I don't find anti-marijuana "mental hygiene" films as self-evidently amusing as most people... … [Read more...]
My NEW Taki’s column: Ayn Rand’s Laxative Diet, or: The Menopause Theory of “Atlas Shrugged”
(I like my title better!) Yet the sprinklings of patriotic, almost Capra-esque populism that softened The Fountainhead’s unavoidable elitism are absent entirely in her follow-up, Atlas Shrugged, … [Read more...]
Trailers From Hell: “Annie Hall” (1977)
I basically know this movie by heart. It was a very big deal for me when I was 13 (while the rest of you were wasting your time with Star Wars.) That was probably a bad thing in retrospect, but I've mostly … [Read more...]
Screen Junkies: “Who is the Greatest Director of The 1970s?”
Reading Mark Steyn on the songs of Burt Bacharach…
...the only thing I can think of, pre-coffee, is how much I admire Bacharach's (and Hal David's) theme song for The Blob. Imagine being a jobbing songwriter, and getting stuck with that assignment. And … [Read more...]
Jim Goad on the latest “even babies are racist” “studies”
Jim Goad writes: But the natural-born instinct for “group survival”—at least when manifested among whites—has been twisted into a mental pathology of the highest order, the Original Sin of our times. In … [Read more...]
